I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.

If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.